Top Frog Series, Volume 3, Passenger Trains in the West
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.Passenger trains in the 50’s and 60’s travel the Santa Fe, Union Pacific, CB&Q and Rio Grande.
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Passenger trains in the 50’s and 60’s travel the Santa Fe, Union Pacific, CB&Q and Rio Grande.

Emery Gulash at his best with his camera pointed at steam. This is steam on film from one of the best cinematographer of the 1950s, 60s and 70s.

Vintage film footage of steam locomotives, primarily shot in the Midwest, famous and not famous. Included are SP 4449 in patriotic colors and CB&Q 4960 on the Streator Branch.

An epic railfan trip covering 19 days and 7 states. Action on both class 1 carriers and shortlines. We’ll see F-units on the B&LE, high speed intermodal on the Santa Fe, a cab ride at the Monticello Railroad Museum and chase a BL2 on the WICT from Janesville to the Chicago area.
Railroad action is in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri and Iowa. Steam is on the menu too, with NKP 765, N&W 1218, and Reading 2102 running in front of our cameras! From the camera of Art Purchase, Summer of 1991.

Rare film of steam locomotives working on the East Coast when steam was king.

Join us, trackside and in the cab for a 67 mile trip with steam locomotive #1702. Believe it or not, we “talked”with the engine crew as we paced the 1702 from our car! You’ll see what we mean.

Vintage Doubleheaders is a rare treat with some of the oldest engines in America, all operating on 3 foot rails of the host railroad, the 64-mile Cumbres & Toltec scenic railroad.

4501 was the first of 177 Mikados the Southern ordered from Baldwin in 1911. She’s now the last of her breed. Here is film from three decades of excursions.

Wrenching changes for the B&M following World War II.

Watch BNSF power change over 13 years.

First up is a 1947 visit to the ET&WNC Narrow Gauge. The day begins with a few chase scenes of #12 heading from Elizabethton to Cranberry. Then we see that they have boarded the cab for the remainder of the run to Cranberry. Here the engine takes water, and switching is done, before they head…

Some vintage black and white, quickly moving to color film from the ’50s.

Diverse railroad operations in the picturesque Pennsylvania Dutch Country.

The end of the Anthracite Roads. Informative narration & commentary by Mike Bednar.

Two of the most scenic railroads in the United States, the Cumbres and Toltec, and the Durango & Silverton.

The age of steam came to its finale’ in the early 1950’s.

A legendary hot spot in steam and diesel years, Grand Island.

This is Clinchfield, The South End. Erwin to Spartanburg in 1991.

Rare film follows the NP as it dispatches a tremendous amount of steam in the 1940s.

Machines have replaced backbreaking labor when railroads rebuild their track.

In this program we witness a dynamic Fallen Flag, Conrail, captured in 1995 at various locations on the Harrisburg Line and the Pittsburgh Line. We first spend an afternoon/evening at Wernersville before venturing out on the Pittsburgh Line at Bailey Run, Mexico Farm Road Crossing (otherwise known as Book’s Crossing named after farm owner there), Mattawanna, and Huntingdon.

Green Frog brings you some nostalgia of those olden times with action along the hi-iron, and at two museums who own some of the finest full size and model circus collections you can find.

The Miniature White House is a faithful replica of the most enduring symbol of our nation. Take a video tour of this masterpiece in miniature.

It’s all about the caboose! “The Tail End” takes us back in time, as we ride 450 and 451 between Toronto and North Bay, on one of the last CN trains to still have a regular caboose.

The 4-engine B-17 Flying Fortress is an iconic WWII aircraft. Only 10 to 12 of them still fly.
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